PICO & BEVERLY GLEN BOULEVARDS, DEACON COUPLE: TOM AND CARRIE SABOL LOS ANGELES, CA 90064 REV. EMMANUEL P. BANICO, RESIDENT PRIEST PARISH OFFICE: (310) 474-1216 WWW.STTIMOTHYLA.ORG
First Sunday of Lent
February 21, 2010 The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart. -- Romans 10:8
OFFICE CONFESSIONS MARRIAGES, BAPTISIMS, SPECIAL SERVICES & MASSES
10425 W. Pico Blvd. Saturday: 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Phone: (310) 474-1216 First Friday: Before 7:30 a.m. Mass PLEASE CALL THE RECTORY WWW.STTIMOTHYLA.ORG SCHOOL MASS SCHEDULE DEVOTIONS Iselda E. Richmond, Principal Saturday Vigil: 5:30 p.m. Monday following 7:30 a.m. Mass, Miraculous 10479 W. Pico Blvd Sunday Masses: 7:30, 9:00, 10:30, 12:00 p.m. Medal Novena. 1st Friday After 7:30 a.m. Mass. Daily Masses: 7:30 a.m. Phone: (310) 474-1811 Holy Day Masses: Vigil: 5:30 p.m., 7:30 a.m., First Saturday of the month following 7:30 a.m. WWW.STTIMOTHY.ORG Mass, Our Lady of Fatima, and Every Monday 12:10 p.m. 7:15 p.m. Legion of Mary. February 21, 2010 St. Timothy
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STS FISH FRY FRIDAYS- Friday, February 26th. Dinner plate includes choice of Red Snapper or Catfish, French Fries, Green salad, your choice of coleslaw or potato salad and Dessert. Child’s plate: $8; Adult plate: $10; Combo plate: $15. CHILDREN'S LITURGY OF THE WORD Dinners can be picked up in the Parish Hall between 3:30 and Our Children's Liturgy of the Word continues to meet each 6:30. ALL PROCEEDS ARE DONATED TO ST. TIMOTHY SCHOOL. Sunday at the 9am Family Mass. All children are welcome MONEY SAVER’S MEATS to join in our gift procession during the 9am Mass by bring- RALPH’S REWARDS CARD FOR STS- Do you shop at ing non-perishable food items. Please meet Ms. Deborah at Ralph’s? Would you like to help raise money for STS? Well the back of the Church during the collection of donations. For addi- now you can do both when you shop at Ralph’s! STS has joined tional information, please contact Deborah at 310-474-1216. the Ralph’s community contribution program and with your help, is eligible for up to $3,000 a quarter. All you have to do is READINGS FOR THE WEEK link your Ralph’s card to the STS community partner account. Monday: 1 Pt 5:1-4; Mt 16:13-19 Sign up today! For forms or more information, please contact Tuesday: Is 55:10-11; Mt 6:7-15 Eric Braxton at embrax@cs.com Wednesday: Jon 3:1-10; Lk 11:29-32 St. Timothy School Spring Fundraiser-Save The Date for Thursday: Est C:12, 14-16, 23-25; Mt 7:7-12 Casino Night 2010. Saturday, May 1st at 6.30pm at St. Timothy Friday: Ez 18:21-28; Mt 5:20-26 School. Dinner, Drinks, Dancing, Charitable Gambling, Silent Saturday: Dt 26:16-19; Mt 5:43-48 Auction, Raffle Prizes and much more. More details to follow. Sunday: Gn 15:5-12, 17-18; Ps 27; Phil 3:17 -- 4:1 [3:20 -- 4:1]; Lk 9:28b-36 STS ANNUAL FUND DRIVE- Like all other non-profit or- ganization, St. Timothy School needs your help more than ever this year. Help our school keep its tuition down and continue providing our children with an education that competes with that offered by the top schools in Los Angeles County. Consider supporting the 2009-2010 Annual Fund Drive by making a tax Sunday, February 21st: 7:30 Conception Guzman (D) deductible contribution to our school. For further information 9:00 For Parishioners of St Timothy contact the school’s office at (310) 474-1811 and/or pick-up a 10:30 Keta Carrasco (D) pledge form at the back of the church and mail it in before the 12:00 Betty Mason (D) end of the school year. Your support is vital to our school’s Monday, February 22nd: 7:30: Mr & Mrs Hero Frisancho (D) success. Tuesday, February 23rd: 7:30 Yen-Seng Shen (D) Wednesday, February 24th: 7:30 Manuel Nava (D) Thursday, February 25th: 7:30 Joana Ku (L) Friday, February 26th: 7:30 Marcel Dubach (D) Our next scheduled Baptism Preparation classes are: Saturday, February 27th: 7:30 Cecilia Chen (L) For more information, please contact Deborah at 310-474-1216. 5:30 Vincent & Mario Cornaccia (D) Date & Time Location Sunday, February 28th: 7:30 Juanita Lares (D) March 11th, Thursday, 6pm Rectory 9:00 Angelina Moreno (L) 10:30 For Parishioners of St Timothy SUNDAY SCHOOL 12:00 Roberto Fitz Patrick (D) On Thursday, February 25th at 7:00 pm, there will be a Parent’s meeting for First Holy Communion & Recon- Mass Intentions are a perfect way to remember your ciliation in the Parish Hall. On Sunday, March 14th our loved ones whether living or deceased. Religious Education families will meet at Nazareth Commemorate those key anniversaries with a lasting spiritual House at 10:15 am for our community project in celebration of gift. Call the Parish Office at (310) 474-1216 for more infor- Saint Patrick’s Day. Please call Deborah at (310) 474-1216, for more information. mation. ADULT EDUCATION/ADULT CONFIRMATION Date Time Topic Presenter Missing a Sacrament? Desire a more complete February 25th Thursday, 7 pm Anointing of the Sick & Holy Fr. Paul knowledge of our Church and Bible? Please join us Orders in the Rectory for our exciting upcoming sessions. March 4th Thursday, 7 pm Woman at the Well Deborah Contact our Director of Religious Education, Deb- March 11th Thursday, 7 pm Blind Man Karen orah, who will work with you to enroll you in the Boyle appropriate program. Deborah may be reached at March 19th- Friday-Sunday Annual Religious Education Anaheim (310)474-1216. Upcoming Sessions: 21st Congress Conv. Ctr. Welcome New Parishioners! Welcome to our parish family! If you are a newcomer to the As of this writing there may be a few bulletin parish and would like to register, please complete the informa- inserts but one is for sure at least, namely, “Casino tion below. Please clip this form and bring to the parish office Night,” a school fundraiser. The other possible bulletin or drop into the collection basket. Thank you and welcome to inserts are regarding the Wednesday evening Stations our parish! of the Cross during and the two or three times on Fri- Name (s): day. The other is another Lenten related activity, Address: City: Zip: Phone: namely, a “fish fry.” Cell Phone: On this weekend, the first Sunday of Lent, in E-Mail: most parishes, the Rite of Election is celebrated with Envelopes: Yes No the catechumens who are ready for the Easter sacra- Registration cards are also available in Parish Office ments of Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist. Unfor- tunately, there is not a single catechumen here! Never- Norte Dame Academy Hawaiian— Casino Night theless, since the two-fold purpose of Lent is to pre- Please join us for a night of fun! pare catechumens for the reception of the Easter sac- raments and the renewal of those of us who have al- Saturday, March 20, 2010 ready received the Easter sacraments, we can, as a 7:00 pm—11:00 pm parish, participate in the second, but equally impor- At Norte Dame Academy tant, purpose of renewing our own spiritual life that 2851 Overland, Ave. comes to us through the sacraments. With regards to Los Angeles, CA 90064 receiving the sacraments, we will have about ten to (310) 839-5289 x 200 fifteen children First Communions and less than ten We will have casino games, bingo, dancing, food, drinks, si- teenage Confirmations. These are small numbers. lent auction, door prizes and a raffle for 2 tickets to Hawaii!! Both of these sacraments for the young will be cele- $40 a person (includes: dinner, a bucket of chips and a drink) brated during the Easter season. The Church presents us with the perfect Gos- pel passage for the beginning of Lent: the temptations of Jesus. Yes, everyone is tempted, even Jesus! An- Sunday, February 21st: other way to put it is, if Jesus was tempted we can be Children’s Liturgy of the Word 9 am Mass sure that we will! Although we may be motivated by 9 am Boy Scout Mass fear not to give into temptation, this is a valid enough 8:30 am Boy Scouts Host Hospitality reason and legitimate according to the spiritual tradi- Monday, February 22nd: tion. Although the perfect way to avoid falling into Legion of Mary 7:15 pm in the Rectory temptation is because we are motivated by God’s love Thursday, February 25th: to prefer Him to everything else. In the end, the way 7-8 pm Parent First Reconciliation Parish Hall of God is the way of blessings and peace; the other Friday, February 26th: way is the way of, well, can I just say, hell, and hell on 2 pm Stations of The Cross earth. And remember what they say, it’s a slippery 4 pm Lent, Fish Fry road! Anyway, we have a hero and winner in the strug- Saturday, February27th: gle against evil: Jesus, who overcame the most power- 4 pm Cub Scouts Blue & Gold Dinner Parish Hall ful temptations. So, he is not only our model but also Sunday, February 28th: our helper, by His grace. Children’s Liturgy of the Word 9 am Mass Pope Benedict has published his Lenten Mes- 8:30 am Religious Education Hosts Hospitality sage 2010 for the world, which is as eloquent as ever. He says that justice is normally and correctly under- stood as giving to each person his or her due. This is correct but there is another justice that comes from LITURGICAL MINISTER SCHEDULE God, namely, the justice of the sacrifice of Jesus that February 28, 2010 gives us justice whether we deserve it or not. We are Lectors Communion Ministers justified by the grace and gift of God. Then, we can 5:30— Murillo; Bean 5:30— Rooney; Martner; Ewell share that grace and justification with others. I invite 7:30— Manshardt 7:30— Sabol; Owen; Aclan you to read in its entirety. Simply go to our web page, which is on the front of our bulletin, click the links but- 9:00— Juarez; Demer 9:00— Bryant; Rowe; Dixon ton and go to the Vatican web page, then click on Eng- 10:30— Echeverry; 10:30— Svobodas; Page lish (unless you prefer another language) then go to Woods Latest Updates, then to the 12:00— Simmons 12:00— Leyva; Gerski; Fr. Paul E. Vigil Morrison